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Europe needs to fight US Cloud dominance, says Commissioner Reding

Posted by Stuart Lauchlan in Management, Infrastructure on Fri, 10/07/2009 - 10:35

European Clouds should be set up within the next five years to encourage small business take-up of on-demand IT services and to stop US dominance of the Cloud market.  That was the message from the European Commissioner for telecoms and media, Viviane Reding on Thursday as she unveiled the Commission's Digital Europe strategy.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

View from the Cloud: is email dead for business?

Leading Cloud Computing industry figures offers their unique viewpoint on topical and strategic issues.

In this article Cameron  Nouri, Email & Apps Evangelist at Rackspace suggests that Cloud Computing alters the role of email in business.

"Email is clearly an important tool for communication, but it is just part of the infrastructure and not part of the company’s IP,  which drives market share and delivers competitive edge. This means email needs to adapt to businesses’ requirements, not  the other way around. As Cloud Computing become more widespread, we are already seeing a shift in how email is managed."   Read more.